Rachel Turnbull
Assistant to the Marine Biology Group (work experience)

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Biography

Interests / Hobbies

My interests are learning about the social structures and behaviours exhibited by sharks.

I love all animals and love to work with them. I enjoy getting to know them and their personalities so that I can find a way of spending time with them that we will both enjoy.

I enjoy learning new things, such as the programming language Python, as well as strange facts and pieces of trivia.

I am very interested in all creatures of the sea, especially predators. I want to be a marine biologist when I finish university and hope to specialise in sharks, skates, and rays.

My hobbies include reading, ballet, tap and modern dance, drawing, walking, and playing the violin.

Plans for the future

I plan to become a marine biologist when finishing university.

Departmental roles

Rachel is the Assistant to the Marine Biology Group.  Her main duties are as below:

Key duties

• Piloting an unmanned quadcopter
• Visual data identification, entry and recording
• Website editing
• Assessing the standard of MSc presentations
• Analytical Chemistry using the ICP-OES (inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrophotometer)
• Analytical chemistry using the GC-MS (Gas Chromatograph- Mass Spectrometry)